Tiny elephants? Isn’t that a contradiction - an oxymoron? Also, there should be four elephants standing on each turtle in the stack. I learned that from my years as a Pratchett reader. Or maybe only the topmost turtle has elephants. Mother celebrated her 90th birthdip this year. Yay! Happy New Year(...

Mostly the gators stay farther south, so I don't worry about them too much. Apparently someone spotted a 1/2 cue monitor lizard crossing a road nearby though. No word as to why. Isn't the answer: "To get to the other side"? Or maybe this SMBC comic contains the answer: https://www.smbc-co...

Happy Timeversary! Only 1/11 of my life has passed since Time started. (I guess time slows down with age.) Hello Laura, Adventgirl, and others. I'm afraid I have been too basemented to see much of the Advent calendar, but I liked what I saw so far! Today is also Waffle Day in Sweden. Hm, I think I h...

*creak, creak* I was thinking of wishing y’all a happy pi day 3/14, but I was too slow. Then I thought of warning you about the Ides of March 3/15 (unlucky day if you are named Julius Caesar), or wish you a happy sqrt(10) day 3/16, but, time flew. So, following decree, I wish you a happy 3/18, witho...

Do you remember Reverse Polish? Yeah, isn't that called "Tarnish"? I had a calculator in college that used Tarnish notation; I used it to polish off my homework. Jose That took me far longer to understand than I care to admit. Wow, and I always thought this was the hardest puzzle ever. Th...

↫ Someone said he is psychopath, but not in the horror movie sense (I hope!) but in the sense of a very manipulating personality. So that's fake too? You mean, he appears to be manipulating but the secret truth is that he isn't really? Now my head is spinning. I have been thinking of those logic pu...

Thanks for sympathy, y'all. I appreciate it. As for autocorrect, I am way ahead of you: http://forums3.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&p=4110954#p4110428 But of course it's worse when it thinks everything I write must be Swedish. I thought I had activated an English dictionary, too, in the settings, ...

I have been in the basement. However, although I take pride in being a rational sceptic, today I got a divine reminder to pop in and say hello. You see, I was googling a local folk music event, and I was reminded that I stole borrowed my avatar image from the logotype of the organizers. Also, two of...

Just a quick blindpost to let you know that the Horrible Carpenter from Hell did sue me. I'll admit that the man has guts, but it seems that he has no brains. If I do lose the case, I can afford to pay the limited amount. If I win, on the other hand, there is a real chance that I can get much more m...

Hi mikrit! Suddenly I find myself wondering what Google Translate would call a "short-term home". Well, all right. That's a word-for-word translation. "Korttidshem". Short-time home. Let's call it a boarding-house for children and young adults with disabilities. It's managed and...

Mom is surprisingly healthy, and my twin nieces have graduated from law school (that's probably not the correct English terminology). That sentence looks perfect. It is all Happy-Happy/Joy-Joy. Please, come back and tell us more. Did you see svenman's French/German Castles? Hi, Zooman and addams! I...

Well, I fell down in the basement again, but I want to wish my dear friends in the OTT a happy Valentine's day. I am a bit late in my own time zone, but I figure it's still Feb. 14 in some parts of the world. Calendars are just a social construction anyway, right? Life isn't too bad here, we have fi...

Hooray, new Yappo recordings! Steakish story, mikrit! Rather ironic, though. Would you agree that it could be described as a parody? Thanks! Yeah, I suppose so. I have been trying to figure out how ggh can be so good at decyphering things like proto-Beanish, and I have come up with two theories: 1) ...

Thanks for kind words, ggh and SBN and others. I am still trying to ketch up to the present, so I am not quite up to date on recent newpages, but here is some random stuff I want to share. Sometimes, when I see a person in real life, I think "Oh, xe looks exactly like this-or-that fictional cha...

Blindposting a completely off-topic I-feel-so-sorry-for-myself rant: The carpenter/painter who is working at my cottage turned out to be a motherch*rping steambottlish son-of-a-hillbully who never seems to get finished and is offended by the slightest criticism, Randammit! And I needed to write that...

On newpage 2477, Sorry my explanation wasn't very explainy. By linking to the double dactyl I had posted in proto-beanish, I was trying to say in a sneaky way that I knew that it was taixzo because I could read (and sorta badly write) proto-beanish. I had a little fun, once I could read it. I correc...

Wowsome walk descriptions, ggh! For http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/Pictures/620xAny/2/0/8/28208_poppadom.gif Reckon I'll get away with that? Poppadom? Papadum? Po...OH I GET IT I GET IT VITSSÅGEN, JA! http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=39451 I was going "Waffles? Pancakes? Is that maple s...

My neoblitz has taken me to the beginning of April 2016... oh, I am sorry for the heresy. I mean I am in the 2460s. I have admired taixzo's skill in making Sand Garden, and I have enjoyed your screenshots and narratives. About when I ought to molpy down today, the Muse grabbed me and said "Not ...

Don't say that! The idea of lost unmatched parens out there might bug BlitzGirl so much that she'll decide to go searching in the past to find and correct them. We want her in the present. Here, have a bunch of closed parens to get everyone's mind off of it: ()()()()...

I have started a neoblitz through the last year. I am now at Jan 6, and Tallbean and Shortbean are going down in the elevator again, just armed with little sticks (or laptop computers seen from the side). Meanwhile, submarine bots are building a wall. I don't know why I post this, but I am sitting i...

Oh dear. I hope you are still all right in NZ. Sending my best antipodal wishes. Darn, I am posting this on a new phone that I haven't figured out yet. The spellchecker tries to change every English word to a Swedish word with a few similar letters. "Wishes" becomes "Widgren", fo...

Look, they combined the mirror and the tripod into a giant matchstick. Yeah, that was how I saw it, too. Or maybe a karaoke microphone. There was a "cultural week" in Gothenburg some years ago (as opposed to the 51 uncultured ones.). And someone had coreographed a ballet for three excavat...

I think the Beanish characters for "yes" look a bit like the proto-Beanish word on the side of the mysterybot. But I guess that's coincidence. Why write "yes" on a robot? In fact, why write anything in a robot society?

- Mirror, mirror, in my hand! Who is the beaniest in this land? - It is no longer you, Tallbeanie. The young woman they call Rosetta has grown in wisdom and insights, year by year. Yesterday she defended her thesis, "Oceanography in a Changing World", and graduated summa cum laude. She is ...

Maybe the released the dam rope suddenly, and then the elevator started swinging left and right, as it was raising. However, we only see the elevator at ONG times, so if the elevator swinging has the same frequency as the ONGs, we would have a resonance that makes us see the elevator only in the lef...

So, Laura Mae, Google tells me that you work at a Modular Force Field System? That sounds very Star Trekish. - We need more Modular Force, Lt Junebug! - The System Field cannot take it anymore, Mr Spock. - Well, just find a way, Lieutenant. And who told you that you could bring your feline symbiont ...

For secondary decree: yes, I can see the tail in your signature, but I didn't see that it was a tail until you said so; I saw it as a decorative abstract swirl. Sorry. But now that I know, I can't unsee the tail.

In RELATED news, research indicates nobody knows how the sea works. Not much Time to post due to Outside, but I did want to leave this for ucim: http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=42487 Molpy on! But it was Link you quoted. And I read the article very carefully and haven't found a single p...